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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's a pleasure. I've only done it for a personal
hobby not anything commercial, but I'm sure the principles are the
same.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=tom.willis@gmail.com href="mailto:tom.willis@gmail.com">Thomas G.
Willis</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 23, 2006 4:07
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ardour-users] Fw: Surround
Sound Mixing</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hey Stephen thanks that gives me enough info to help my friend
to see if it's indeeed possible with his hardware. he has an ac3 encoder and
all that, and I'd love to figure out how to do this myself
anyway.<BR><BR><BR>Thanks very much. <BR><BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 3/23/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Stephen
West</B> <<A
href="mailto:stephenwest1@lineone.net">stephenwest1@lineone.net</A>>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Thomas,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm starting to do some work with 5.1 mixing.
I'm no expert but I've got it working for me.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I create 5 busses called 'Left', 'Centre',
'Right', etc. I cound that creating a master bus with six channels didn't
work for me as the sound directed to one channel would leak into another
channel and could be heard from somewhere you didn't want. Also, you can't
automate the panning for six channels.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I run ac3jack (<A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://essej.net/ac3jack/"
target=_blank>http://essej.net/ac3jack/</A>) and connect with JACK, the
'Left' bus to the AC3Jack 'Left' channel, etc. I can then output via the
optical output to my surround sound decoder. As far as I can see AC3Jack is
legal in the UK but I'm not sure about elsewhere, owing to Intellectual
Property laws. If you didn't want to use AC3Jack you could buy a six channel
card and output to six speakers instead, connecting your busses to the
relevant outputs of the card.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I create the sound effect in a track and
output to the relevant bus, e.g., Left or Right, etc., or more than one bus
if required.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>AC3Jack will also let you create a
final AC3 file so you can then add the sound output to a DVD as Dolby
Digital.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm not sure if my way is the best way. Perhaps
others have a better solution but it works for me.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope that helps,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 23, 2006 3:49 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [ardour-users] Surround Sound Mixing</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>OK, #1 I have no clue about this stuff and what's involved.
#2 I have a friend that is doing fairly well for himself doing sound work
for movies and is somehow doing surround mixing outside of
pro-tools.<BR><BR>Basically he asked me if surround mixing is possible in
ardour because he doesn't want to upgrade to the uber expensive protools
version that allows him to do that. <BR><BR>I did a bit of research and came
to the conclusion that it's either theoretically possible or a feature that
isn't stable yet.<BR><BR>So, I'm hoping someone on this list can let
me know that it is indeed possible. <BR><BR>I saw that you can choose from 5
to 8 outputs in mastering and I can assume that that would work for surround
but without anyway for me to test this myself I'm wondering how one would
route a track to the subwoofer vs the center channel vs the front r/l vs
rear r/l. <BR><BR> <BR clear=all>Appologies in advance if this is all
insanely stupid questions. <BR>-- <BR>Thomas G.
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